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Due to poor weather at the first official test of the 2011 World Superbike season at the Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal, Suzuki Alstare and the WSBK team’s sole rider Michel Fabrizio didn’t get too much work completed.

Official testing continued Thursday for World Superbike teams at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao, Portugal. Team Althea Racing Ducati rider Carlos Checa continued to make strong progress despite the wet conditions.

A heavy rain shower meant that there was no track action for the best part of the early morning session.

The second day of official World Superbike testing at Portimao, Portugal, got underway in wet conditions on Thursday.

Both the morning and afternoon sessions were plagued by consistent rain drops, but as the track began to slowly dry out during the later session, the top time went to Jonathan Rea on the Castrol Honda CBR1000RR.

For the third consecutive stage at the 33rd edition of the Dakar Rally, a bike other than a KTM took victory. On Sunday, after a shortened 273-km Stage 7, Chilean rider Francisco "Chaleco" took the victory aboard an Aprilia 450.